Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 · Chapter II: Corporation, Standing Committee and Medical Benefit Council
Section 5: Term of office of members of the Corporation
The Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 was repealed and replaced by the Code on Social Security, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the term of office of members of the Corporation, other than [the members referred to in clauses
(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of section 4 and the ex officio member,] shall be four years commencing from the date on which their [appointment] or election is notified:
Provided that a member of the Corporation shall, notwithstanding the expiry of the said period of four years, continue to hold office until the [appointment] or election of his successor is notified.
(2) The members of the Corporation referred to in clauses [(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e)] of section 4 shall hold office during the pleasure of the Government [appointing] them.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
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